Officials have waived several graduation requirements, including certain state exams and seat time, in response to the statewide school closure.
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My mom survived the coronavirus
“She had been taking precautions, I knew of no exposure, and her symptoms were not those we had been warned about… At 7:19 on Saturday night, I received a phone call that made my knees go out from under me.”
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Challenges, questions as special education shifts to homes during statewide school closure
Often one-on-one, moving special education services like counseling and therapy to homes is another challenge for families.
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VCPORA: Hard Rock demolition questions must be answered
“The City of New Orleans may help 1031 Canal Street Development LLC, the developers of the ill-fated Hard Rock Hotel, make lemonade out of lemons after the disastrous October 2019 collapse of their unfinished building. The city’s insistence on implosion, which jeopardizes three adjacent buildings, could allow the developers to profit tremendously from the fatal collapse of their hotel.”
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Coalition of 21 groups calls on Convention Center to use $100 million from cash reserves to support hospitality workers
The Convention Center has recently reported somewhere between $185 million and $215 million in unrestricted reserves, which it has accumulated through the collection of locally generated taxes.
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Louisiana federal prison no longer testing symptomatic inmates for coronavirus due to ‘sustained transmission’
Bureau of Prisons does not plan to release number of presumed positive prisoners.
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Two inmates at the New Orleans jail test positive for coronavirus
Eleven staffers, six healthcare contractor employees have tested positive as well.
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Amid pandemic, class of 2020 awaits graduation requirements
With schools closed for a month, and possibly longer, it’s unclear what seniors must complete to earn a diploma. The state will issue guidelines later this week.
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The Convention Center coronavirus step-down center: How will it work, and what’s the cost?
Contracts finalized this week total $76 million for the first month, though much of that is likely to be covered by the federal government.
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Community organizer, author The Rev. William Barnwell dies at 81
William was a preacher and a civil rights advocate, the author of many books, a father, a husband, a man of many accomplishments. But by every instinct and with consummate skill, his life could be summed up in another way: he was above all an organizer.